Industry Briefs, Aug. 31, 2026
(Image courtesy of Markus Winkler via pexels.com)
Checkr Announces Truv Acquisition
Checkr, San Francisco, announced the acquisition of Truv, Miami.
In the past year, Checkr has expanded its offerings with new mortgage, tenant and personal verification solutions, and the acquisition of Truv will further that momentum, also expanding it into government.
Truv, which allows customers to connect directly to payroll providers and financial institutions on a consumer-permissioned basis, will help loan officers verify borrowers faster and with greater confidence.
Click here for more information
Class Valuation Acquires Allstate Appraisal
Class Valuation, Troy, Mich., has acquired Allstate Appraisal, which was founded in 1959 in Chicago Heights, Ill.
As part of Class Valuation, Allstate Appraisal will continue operating with its experienced team and longstanding commitment to quality while gaining access to Class Valuation’s technology platform, national infrastructure and expanded suite of valuation solutions.
The purchase strengthens Class Valuation’s ability to support clients with residential and commercial valuation services, appraisal review, litigation support and specialized valuation needs.
Click here for more information
eRESI, Prudent AI Team
eRESI, Pasadena, Calif., and Prudent AI, Dover, Del., have partnered to give non-delegated correspondent sellers access to faster and more efficient ways to analyze complex borrower income earlier in the loan process.
Sellers can use Prudent AI’s Upfront Income platform to evaluate qualifying income across complex borrower scenarios. The platform can automatically identify it, organize it and deliver calculations backed by source data.
It reviews 12-24 months of income calculations, filters out non-qualifying activity, identifies documentation gaps and produces income results that are ready for underwriting.
The partnership reflects eRESI’s continued focus on giving its sellers tools to improve efficiency and support more complex borrower scenarios.
Click here for more information
Maxwell, Ardley Partner
Maxwell, Littleton, Colo., announced a strategic partnership with Ardley, Reston, Va., connecting Ardley’s real-time customer and portfolio analytics and precision targeting capabilities with Maxwell’s point-of-sale platform.
It will allow lenders and servicers to more quickly identify eligible borrowers for a variety of products and work with them through a closed loan.
By deploying Ardley across the customer base, a Maxwell POS customer will be able to automatically identify eligible borrowers and nurture leads into active loan opportunities.
The integrated solution is currently being introduced through an initial pilot program with select lenders.
Click here for more information
Dark Matter Announces Latest POS Release
Dark Matter Technologies, Jacksonville, Fla., rolled out its latest point-of-sale release, bringing document validation powered by Aiva Intelligence to the earliest stage of the lending process.
Borrower documents will be validated at upload instead of later in the review process, and borrowers immediately learn whether a document meets the requested condition and receive a plain-language explanation of the outcome and guidance for resolving issues.
For lenders, they receive the same validation results, along with an audit trail. Every lender can determine how the workflow operates.
The release also includes several enhancements designed to simplify the POS experience for borrowers and loan officers, including a redesigned application workspace and more precise loan-copy capabilities.
Click here for more information
Optimal Blue Expands Availability of Virtual Economist
Optimal Blue, Plano, Texas, announced the general availability of Virtual Economist.
Originally revealed in beta in February, Virtual Economist is now available to all Optimal Blue Product, Pricing, and Eligibility Engine and CompassEdge clients.
Virtual Economist combines public economic data with Optimal Blue’s proprietary lock volume data into machine learning models to deliver rate and market volume forecasts. It allows users to explore and visualize various scenarios related to interest rates.
Click here for more information
Clear Capital’s UDC Verified by Fannie, Freddie to Support UPDR Specifications
Clear Capital, Reno, Nev., announced that its Universal Data Collection has been verified by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to support the Uniform Property Data Report specifications.
UDC provides a proprietary Report Summary, designed to help underwriters quickly identify key information within the report.
Clear Capital’s Report Summary surfaces the results from Fannie Mae’s Property Data API and Freddie Mac Beyond Ace API, highlights key property details and potential risk indicators and includes context such as HOA status and solar ownership. There are also alerts flagging potential data issues or health or safety concerns.
Click here for more information
